• From: Lakeland florida
  • Registered: 2011-06-01
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Topic: Raspberry Pi Chumby Project

I have (kinda) completed the ChumPi project that has a raspberry pi doing some chumby/dash-like things. Here is a pic:
https://sites.google.com/site/techntires/_/rsrc/1583019643296/electronics/raspberry-pi-chumby/chumpipic.jpg
and a video:  https://youtu.be/Nl48_imjaEE

And a guide for those who would like to give it a try. (No guarantees this will work on your hardware without some tweaking!)

Guide:   https://sites.google.com/site/techntire … =0&d=1

  • From: Arizona
  • Registered: 2012-05-17
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Re: Raspberry Pi Chumby Project

Thanks!

3 Reply by infocastme (edited by infocastme 2020-03-01 15:40:30)

  • From: Arizona
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Re: Raspberry Pi Chumby Project

If you want to add some clock "flair", here is one of many sites that has a bunch of flash based clocks.

A quick search will show find a bunch available.

https://www.adamdorman.com/flash_clocks/

  • From: Lakeland florida
  • Registered: 2011-06-01
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Re: Raspberry Pi Chumby Project

Hmmm....that's neat....

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Re: Raspberry Pi Chumby Project

Many of Adam Dorman's Flash clocks are available in the chumby catalog.

Duane's Website

  • Odo
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Re: Raspberry Pi Chumby Project

Hi amigafin!

This is very interesting project, since I am working just now to resuscitate my dead Chumby One sad.

Could you post details of the hardware used? Linke what screen did you use and what mounting?

I have a Raspberry Pi2 which is sitting in my drawer and gathering dust, but I have no screen.

Thanks and great to hear that others share the same interest as myself!

  • From: Lakeland florida
  • Registered: 2011-06-01
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Re: Raspberry Pi Chumby Project

Odo wrote:

Hi amigafin!

This is very interesting project, since I am working just now to resuscitate my dead Chumby One sad.
Could you post details of the hardware used? Linke what screen did you use and what mounting?
I have a Raspberry Pi2 which is sitting in my drawer and gathering dust, but I have no screen.
Thanks and great to hear that others share the same interest as myself!


The screen and Pi I used was an eleduino kit, with a 7" 1024x600 lcd touch screen and PI 3B. Unfortunately that kit is no longer sold as one combined group, but similar components can be pieced together.
I don't really think anything specific would matter, I have duplicated this project on other hardware and it worked fine. (It even works on a windows machine.)  The only thing that might be a problem with the PI2 would be screen loading time because of the processor speed.   
I just have the Pi in a case behind the screen, with a small micro bluetooth keyboard/trackpad in front. The screen came with a stand. I also added a right angle HDMI adapter to keep the HDMI cord out of the way.
But I think as long as you have the monitor specs (like pixels and refresh rate) to add to the startup like it is described in the guide, it should work fine. ...and the default pi settings probably will work without changing anything.